But just how serious are the damages and what are the repairs looking like so far? Espat says that he is leaving it up to the experts to determine what their progress will look like in the days to come, especially with another weekend where heavy showers are expected to occur.
Julius Espat, Minister of Infrastructure
"They are working on it the contractor and the ministry engineers have been sent out to analyze it and we cleared the road so that it's passable but we are looking at how to better it for possible minimizing recurrence where the engineer both internationally and locally thought that the flooding would have happened, happened but they didn't concede that it would have happened at this specific spot. If you notice when you drive the coastal highway you have sections that are concreted and it's concreted with a purpose they know that with a severe flood it has to go over the road and so there are designs in place to be able to accommodate that. But new ones occurred and when we went up to check down stream and the stream is all blocked up with all with bamboo with old trees with all the deforestation that went into the creek and water will find a way out. You have to understand that trees and these things help with minimizing erosion and it directs the flow of water to a specific area. Once you take that out then it's a free flow water will find a way one way or the other and the coastal for example everybody is aware that it was designed and it was placed in an area that's very low and everybody knew that with time it will flood once in a while but the difference is it floods for maybe an hour or two or maximum half a day. While in the past it was impassable for months and weeks so we are progressing and as you progress there are situations that occur that we have to be dealing with."
